posted at 3:13 pm on August 11, 2010 by Allahpundit

The woman said that much of the subsequent coverage of her allegations missed a key nuance: As a participant in a college ritual, where lines between acquiescence and victimization are often blurry, she was largely playing along with the notion that she was being forced to follow Paul’s orders.

“I went along because they were my friends,” she said. “There was an implicit degree of cooperation in the whole thing. I felt like I was being hazed.”…

She reiterated that they took her to a room filled with pot smoke and told her to partake, but she emphasized that she hadn’t been forced. “He did not drug me,” she said. “He did not force me physically in any way.”

She said they then “took me out to this creek and made me worship Aqua Buddha.” And she added that the whole thing was so “weird” that afterwards she ended relations with Paul and his friends.

That’s from Greg Sargent, who complains that by focusing on the obviously bogus “kidnapping” charge, Paul’s campaign is ducking the more luridly explosive allegations about blindfolding and, um, “Aqua Buddha.” Which is fair enough: If Jack Conway is elected, I hope we’ll get the congressional probe into Aqua Buddha’s origins that America deserves.

Young Barry O lives with a Pakistani drug dealer in NYC, and mysteriously travels to Paki for ????, and hangs out in the smoking area with marxists and other leftys, and it’s “Nothing to see here…move along folks…“

Are people not familiar with fraternity rituals, or those on athletic teams? Weird is the norm…

changer1701 on August 11, 2010 at 3:16 PM

My sense is that many people quietly toss their thoughts and memories of their frat/soro days into a ‘memory hole’ once they’re older. Sometimes because they participated in events which they would rather not recall, and/or knew friends who did.
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Calvin: (Looking at an old yearbook) “Is this you with the keg and the ‘Party Naked’ T-Shirt?”

She reiterated that they took her to a room filled with pot smoke and told her to partake, but she emphasized that she hadn’t been forced. “He did not drug me,” she said. “He did not force me physically in any way.”

Regarding conversation we had last week. Fuel pump and I help the boys lift the bed of the truck off. Cost $286 compared to $1011 from Government Motors. I just know we will be getting dividend checks soon.

The craziest I got during my college years was acting in plays while completely wasted. Oh, and the time I called up the police department and asked them if it was illegal to use a flamethrower to cut the grass.

The State Department is sending Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the proposed Islamic center near ground zero, on a tour of Persian Gulf states to “discuss Muslim life in America and religious tolerance.” spokesman P.J. Crowley said… [he was] questioned whether Rauf would use the trip to raise funds for the $100 million project,

HornetSting on August 11, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Just as well, to many questions and too much paperwork.

Cindy Munford on August 11, 2010 at 3:39 PM

Damn linky thingy didn’t worky for me. NY man accused of marinating a LIVE cat in his trunk. He was stopped for running a stop sign and the cat, covered in pepper, was rescued…The cat, formally named ‘Navarro’, now named Oliver, is currently working on an interview with GQ and filing suit against his ex-owner.

Damn linky thingy didn’t worky for me. NY man accused of marinating a LIVE cat in his trunk. He was stopped for running a stop sign and the cat, covered in pepper, was rescued…The cat, formally named ‘Navarro’, now named Oliver, is currently working on an interview with GQ and filing suit against his ex-owner.

The craziest I got during my college years was acting in plays while completely wasted. Oh, and the time I called up the police department and asked them if it was illegal to use a flamethrower to cut the grass.

Are people not familiar with fraternity rituals, or those on athletic teams? Weird is the norm…

changer1701 on August 11, 2010 at 3:16 PM

I wondered the same thing. Eons ago when I pledged a sorority we were forced, I tell you FORCED, to do things that looking back were stupid. Some of them involved embarrassment, some involved alcohol and some of them involved some degree of discomfort. I wonder if I should look up the pledge master and vent my anguish – of course it would have to be done anonymously since I’ve risen to be queen of the known universe. /

So, now we know the standard that should be used to judge candidates for national office. Maybe Tea Parties should send a message to media covering every Senate, Governor and House race and ask them if we’re using the “Rand Paul standard” or the “Obama standard” for delving into their past.

BFD. We used to catch a buzz and steal kegs from the front porches of frats because we wanted free beer. We called it ingenuity, but if I ever enter politics, someone will probably escalate it to grand larceny. Raise your hand if you were one of the few who didn’t do anything illegal, immoral, or fattening during college. If this is the best they can come up with, libs are getting truly desperate.